Globalisation
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Literature: In praise of indignation
7 January 2011870 Libération Paris -
Emerging economies: Globalisation 2.0: How the West lost it
6 January 20111872 La Repubblica Rome -
Debates: You'd rather see China or Russia leading?
20 December 20102041 El País Madrid -
Industry: Will Italian workers turn Polish?
30 July 20101081 Gazeta Wyborcza Warsaw -
Economy: Advantage Europe
20 April 2010PresseuropNewsweek -
Ideas: Europe, for globalisation without tears
15 April 2010506 De Volkskrant Amsterdam -
Languages: Goodbye English, long live Globish
2 April 201026815 The Guardian London -
Cinema: Green is the new box-office black
7 October 2009PresseuropLa Croix -
Trade: Shipping industry drowning in financial woes
14 August 20091 Der Spiegel Hamburg
With sales of more than 500,000 copies, the pamphlet Indignez-vous [which literally translates as “Be indignant”] by 93-year-old philosopher and former member of the French Resistance Stéphane Hessel launches an appeal for social and political commitment fueled by the emotion inspired by injustice. 
As the West stews in stagnation, emerging economies are on the rise – and driving prices of raw materials and fuel to perilous highs. As they now set the pace of the global economy, Europe, stymied by cutbacks and unemployment, is in for hard times ahead. 
The euro crisis and enduring political divisions between Europeans have undermined the Old Continent’s standing in a globalised world. It’s time to save the European way, urges Venezuelan columnist Moisés Naim: the alternatives – US hegemony, Chinese capitalist communism or Russian autocracy – are far worse. 
When Fiat offered to relocate its Polish factory to southern Italy, it asked the workers to agree to work more. They accepted but face a major culture shock. A month later, Gazeta Wyborzca visited the Italian plant and seems puzzled by this instance of European social competition. 
The EU needs to do more to protect people against the upsurge of populism. Otherwise the current “second globalisation” will culminate in a crisis of massive proportions, prophesies Dutch philosopher Paul Scheffer. 
With a vocabulary of only 1500 words, “Globish” or “decaffeinated English” has become the world lingua franca. Author Robert McCrum charts the rise of this new dialect of the 21st century. 
The global economic crisis is wreaking havoc on shipping: prices, along with demand, have collapsed and ports are filling up with fleets of empty freighters. The crisis has fueled cut-throat competition and not all companies will survive. Hamburg, with a quarter of the world's shipping activity, is particularly feeling the pinch.